Mercury Shortlist

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare
Basquiat Strings featuring Seb Rochford's Basquiat Strings
Bat for Lashes' Fur & Gold
Dizzee Rascal's Maths & English
Jamie T's Panic Prevention
Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future
Maps' We Can Create
New Young Pony Club's Fantastic Playroom
Fionn Regan's The End of History
The View's Hats Off to the Buskers
Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
The Young Knives' Voices of Animals and Men

go on then.

Comments

Re: lord sukrat sez: MORE TOKENS PLZ

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

"That rare thing" is horrible. The one article I have ever saved from a newspaper is about recurring yet meaningless phrases in book reviews, which include things like "rare felicity", "wickedly funny" and "the name of that young German corporal was Adolf Hitler". In the same list for music reviews, "that rare thing" is surely up there. EVERYTHING IS THAT RARE THING, A THING THAT IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM ANOTHER THING.

Re: lord sukrat sez: MORE TOKENS PLZ

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

'Rare Felicity' = good name for indie grp

Based on their myspace samples, Basquiat Strings sound pretty lightweight, mild-mannered even - i mean, it's not exactly george crumb, is it? i think they must have listened to a lot of John Zorn's string quartet/masada stuff.

no music is 'inaccessible'

based on a quick glimpse on C4, Bat for Lashes is aiming for a Teenage Jesus and the Bjorks kind of vibe